On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 2:15 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:42 am, Aur�lio Diniz wrote: > > I'm sorry if this question have been posted already: > > - I thought that when i install mdk.rpm files it > > automatically puts an entry on the k-menu? Or am i > > wrong? (yes, i know that we can use menudrake to do the > > trick..) > > > > Cumprimentos, > > > > Filipe - Portugal > > Filipe, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I guess it > depends on the skills of the rpm author. Funny thing is > that last time I installed a rpm from a non-mandrake > source ( Opera browser version 6.11 ) it automagically > placed an entry in the menu, icon and all ! > > No big deal, though. But being a guy who likes to exercise > the operating system, I would like to find a way to update > the menus in ALL the graphical environments at once. On my > old clunker here I usually boot into Fluxbox when in a > hurry, ICEWm when having to let my wife ( who is > beautiful, but a windoze-addict ) use the system, XFCE > when nothing important is waiting and KDE when I've got > plenty of time. But the menus are different. I tried to > issue the update-menus command (as root) but to no avail. > Maybe Mandrake will fix this - unimportant - matter in a > later release ? > > Kaj Haulrich
Kaj Installing RPMs *will* update fluxbox menus. The menu file menudrake updates is ~/.fluxbox/menu and your ~/.fluxbox/init file should point to this file. I am using fluxbox-0.1.12-2mdk from Contrib I was under the impression that IceWm manager menus are updated too. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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